linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] sendfile: fix sendfile

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Date:	Wed, 26 May 2010 19:59:45 +0800
From:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, matthew@....cx,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] sendfile: fix sendfile

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> wrote:
>
>>
>> If output file is in non-block mode, in file should be seekable to avoid data
>> losing.
>
> Like the previous patch, I don't agree.

I don't think it isn't an API change, as the current manual page says:

" Presently  (Linux  2.6.9):  in_fd, must correspond to a file which sup-
       ports mmap(2)-like operations (i.e., it cannot be a socket); "

and if file supports mmap-like operations, it should support pread too.

>
>>
>> do_splice_from() shouldn't use sd->pos, as sd->pos is for file reading,
>> file->f_pos should be used instead.
>
> This sounds sane.
>
> These changes look like three cadidates for separate patches.  Could
> you please split this patch up, and submit the first and last change
> as a separate patch?
>

OK. I'll do that later after all the issues are concluded.

-- 
Regards，
Changli Gao(xiaosuo@...il.com)
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